Pope: The Beautiful Value of All Creatures

Posted March 8, 2018 12:21 pm by ZENIT Staff

Pope Francis has urged participants at a conference on ecology to promote “a more profound appreciation for the gift of our common home,” according to Vatican News on March 7, 2018.
He offered his “prayerful best wishes to all the participants” and asked them to “communicate to the world the beautiful truth that every creature is ‘the object of the Father’s tenderness, who gives it its place in the world”.
The conference is being held March 1-7, 2018, at Gregorian Pontifical University, in Rome.
The conference brings together priests, religious, scientists and teachers to explore the implications for the academy, the church, and society